[Jet Jaguar]

During this depression, I have cut back on most all spending.

But, Apple has received my money for an Itouch and another laptop.

Good products.

[Swordmaker]

Seeking Alpha says that up to 65% of the increase in US consumer spending in 2010 went to Apple Inc!!! —PING!

WOW! I find that hard to believe.

Please, No Flame Wars!
Discuss technical issues, software, and hardware.
Don't attack people!

Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
 PLEASE IGNORE THEM!!!

 

Apple profits Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Antonello]

You can have my iPhone when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

[Vendome]

I did not realize they did $65 Billion last year.

200% of the previous year.

Incredible!

[Barnacle]

Just knowing that Bill Gates (who probably lives in Washington state) spent millions of dollars to screw up elections in California is enough to make me a an Apple fan for future purchases.

[KoRn]

I bought my wife an iPad for Christmas(I was tired of her using mine).

I was just barely able to buy one at a Best Buy in my region at the last minute because they were selling out so fast. The day before Christmas Eve I found the one I wanted in stock, and I drove for an hour to get it. When I got there, there were 3 people with the guy selling iPads. Luckily, The one I was after wasn’t one the other people were looking for, and I was able to get one for her.

The Best Buy rep told me that they had totally sold out of iPads three times during that week, and they would likely empty the inventory again on that day, because they had very few left. He said that he’d never seen anything like that kind of demand when it comes to computers.

I almost think that the competitors to the iPad are too late out of the gate. So many people now own iPads, and the defacto name for a tablet type device is now an “iPad”, just as an internet search is called a “google”. Very difficult to overcome.

[HiTech RedNeck]

M$ is still convalescing from the hole it shot in its foot called Vista. (It still doesn’t support a Vista-less way to go from the old good XP to Windows 7.)

Google lives on ads and on free. You don’t get a lot of revenue from free.

Linux continues its slow progress outside of Google as well. Linux is free and there are excellent free consumer distros as well. Corporations will and do pay a pretty penny for Linux support.